Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media After Melville

ISBN-13: 9780810139749 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 264 str.

Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz; Sorin Radu Cucu; Roland Vegso

Spis treści

• Introduction: Handsomely Done, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
• Part 1. Melville and the Limits of the Political
• 1. Moby-Dick and Perpetual War, Sorin Radu Cucu and Roland Végsö
• 2. Bartleby Politics, Emily Apter
• 3. Land and See: The Theatricality of the Political in Schmitt and Melville, Walter Johnston
• 4. The Coward’s Paradox: Pip’s Weak Resistance, Barbara Natalie Nagel
• 5. From Lima to Attica: Benito Cereno, the Nixon Recordings, and the 1971, Prison Uprising, Paul Downes
• Part 2. Audio-Visual Melville
• 6. “A Sound Not Easily to Be Verbally Rendered”: The Literary Acoustic of Billy Budd, David Copenhafer
• 7. Necrophilology: Still/Hearing Bartleby, Jacques Lezra
• 8. Whaling in the Abyss between Melville and Zeppelin: Alex Itin’s Orson Whales, John Hamilton
• 9. The Confidence-Image (Melville, Godard, Deleuze), Peter Szendy
• 10. Belle Trouvaille: Aesthetics and Philology in Billy Budd (after Beau Travail), Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
• 11. A-religion, Jean-Luc Nancy